Victims and perpetrators in Spanish memory literature, from the Spanish Civil War to the present: the case of Dicen, by Susana Sánchez Arins

Abstract

The article exposes how, since the Spanish Civil War, some authors conceived their literature as a way of vindicating the legacy of the victims of totalitarian violence. Starting from this premise, it is reflected, in the first place, how the reiteration of procedures focused on recovering the voices of the reprisals has had as an indirect consequence the blurring of the figure of the perpetrator in Spanish literature. Secondly, the paper reflects on the characteristics of novels such as Dicen, by Susana Sánchez Arins, which try to subvert this panorama.